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,y^'' ^ ^ ^ ^ V ^ ^ - ^ ^ ^ - . -..U-JL.I VOL. XXXTI. CAMDEN, 8. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 55, 1873. ' NO. 40. . . \ '' ' * THE CAMDEN JOURNAL I AN INDEPENDENT. FAMILY PAPER ? PUBLISHED BY .T OI-I3V K ERSHAW, SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance ? S- if Six months 1 ^0 Tliree months : Transient Advertisements must be pniil in advance. i __.L? LEB. i Et ROPF.AN OPINIONS UP THE GREAT SOUTIJ- r ERNER. - t The following is taken from a recgpt arti- v ele on Lee in the Edinburgh Br*vie, and is i descriptive of an interview between General e Lee and Stonewall Jackson during the bat-- ' tie of Chickahouiiny: "A few minutes more * and the gallant soldier himself appeared on a the sceue and rode up to greet Lee. v o'ieercd by Longstreet's metr, aheady vetcr- c a is enough in war tQ understand what his a coming meant Nothing, it has been said, t * *"" ?-"4 r\f thoGA rri-Anf. soldiers \fl III ID Ul.71 UIWVUII^ V* ?nvwv on the battle field could be in more striking contrast than the appearance and manner ot the two. Handsome in face and figure, finely mounted, a graceful rider, calin-visuged, and a carefully dressed, Lcc presented the beau ^ i leal of the commander whose outward beari ?g captivates the soldier's eye. His famous ^ 1 eutenant rode, apparently by choice, an illgroomed, raw-boned horse, aud set so short- ^ stirruped as to give his figure the most awk- . ward appearance. Ailsold cadet's cap, evidmtly a relic of the college professorship he P had not long sruce left, was drawn down ever 1 II?- -?a ?? ? /\r.U? ttiwoorl.KQrn DIS eyes. HIS Coal WU out uuiji Hu?in>-n?v bit ill-brushed y and his words were jerked out in short, abrupt sentences, between . which he sucked the leuion whiob was, as usual, his sole refreshment during his day's work. Yet each already understood the o'her, and valued hiua at his true worth. 4 That's a heavy fire down yonder," said ^ Lee, as the Federal gun opened in reply to ^ Jackson's. "Can your men stand it?"? * They can stand almost anything. The? -0* can stand that," was the emphatic reply; and " after a few words of order and explanation, he left his chief to lead on the attack. This was decisive, aided as it was by a fresh advance of the troops before engaged. The rc Federals were turned, -overmatched and ,u driven from their position, and before dark ^ the shattered remains of Porter's Division ' were crossing the Chickahominy in hasty ro- .m treat. Lee's first battle, in foct, was as striking- IS a success and as well-earned, as any of the more famous victories in after days which have been , so widely studied and so often extolled. ,Nt> word henceforward froiu his Government of C(.' %iy want of confidence in his powers, or 1,1 f ar of his overcruvion. From that hour he b *cajna the moat trusted, as well as the most - noted General of the Confederacy. As to W{ k:s soldiery, his hardy bearing, free sejf-ex- 10 p isure, and constant presence near" their 7~ nnks, completed the influence gained by In< that power of combining their force to ad: f',: vantage, wlpch they instinctively felt with- J 1 out faifr understanding - From mau to man 18 flew 'tEw fiuFy"JT the hour The subtle influonce of sympathy, which wins many hearts 1 for one, was never more rapidly exercised. ^ Like Napoleon, his troops soon learned to believe, him eqnal to every emergency that w<ir oould bring. Like Hannibal, he could speak lightly and calmly at the.gravest mo- an meats, being then himself least grave. #Liko Raglan, he preserved a aweetuess of ?' temper'that no person or circumstance conld ,c ruffle. Like Caesar, he mixed with the crowd 1 of soldiery freely, and never feared that his ^ position would he forgotton. Like Blncher. '' his oue recognized fault was that which the s ddier readily forgives?a readiness to ex- 1' pose his life beyond tho proper limits per- ^ mitted by modern war to the commander-in- 10 chief. What wonder, then, if he theuco- w forward commanded an arnry in which each man would have died for him; an army from which his parting wrung tears more bitter than any the fall of their cause could extort; a( ? . -1?? j t:_ ai aa army wuicn ioiioweu mm, unci years of glorious vicissitudes, into private ^ life, without one^ thought of further resist- dl anco against the fate to which their adored a chiefytelded without a murmur." at The London Stgrulard, in the course of ^ an article upon this critique* pays the following truthful and eloquent tribute to the 'j great captain. It says : "lie nad lost fortune a?d home in the . war, by pillage and wanton destruction ; he was proscribed; he declined to draw ven- (j geance on his State by taking part in her w p ifltics. The commander-in-chief of a national ,(] arifly condescended to the control of a uiili- ^ t iry school, and to a life of silence and obg;urity. But all Southern eyes were fixed a. On him, and his influence was used to keep them calm and patient, and to attach them j " t> the Union which had conquered and was ^ crush iug them. Evfcn while their wrongs aud miseries were wearing out his life he checked every utterance of resentment, every expression of hope for a future deliverance. ' We are all Americans now." lie would ^ allow no toasts to the Lost Cause, no honors | to the fallen banner. He bore his burden ' with*fliuiplo, unaffected, patient heroism. Other men may have approached him in r war and achievement; none capable of deeds like his* ever rivalled him in endurance and submission under hopeless defeat. A Cato would have fallen on his sword ; a Bftitus 0 might have conspired; Hannibal endured 1 oylv in the hope of revenge aud retrieval. But General Lee not only endured, but sub-11 Uiitted. aud that without suffering his eoun- j t try to entertain even the wish to renew the j struggle. He had to endure for some weary ' years, and then the release. The overw rought j nerves suddenly gave way; he sank at once uplf.nomession and apparent MiVUI pvi iwv v,.. 1 health into collapse and speechlessness, and died as literally "of a broken heart" as ever despairing patriot or defeated soldier?more truly far than most "broken hearted" victims of private grief. So he passed away from the country he could neither save by his sword nor restore to happiness by his counsels, but which he had" crowned with glory in war. and rescued in defeat from useless struggles and deeper misery, lie has left behind him no rival < f her love, no object of equal pride and reverence. Nor % 9 s his fame confined to the South. Wherever he English tongue is spoken his nauic is evered and honored?a name to which hisory furnishes few equal* in military renown, lone' in moral grandeur; the name of one rho realized in actual' life the dfeams of deal chivalry?so great in victory that none ivor surpassed, so much greater in defeat hat none ever approached him; the patriot eithout a thought of self, the hero without i shade of affectation or display; the man who rould neither despair of his country nor onspi'ro against her conquerors; ideal soldier nd perfect Citizen; a Christian without preensions and a gentleman without flaw. The Richmond Duel. Our able cotempcrary, the Augusta Chron cle and Sentinel thus comments upon this ragcdy. , "We cannot see that the custom?no mat- j ;r whence in came or by whom practiced? ] dmitsof any defense. It-is a violattiou alike of < ae laws of God, tho laws of man and the i iws of common sense. * It is powerless to re- i air a wrong, or to redress an affront. It is ] ot a test of manliness or courage, and it is ie worst species of murder because of the i >olness and the deliberation which^cnter I ito the offence. Its adroeates usually say- i i its behalf that it prevents th disgracefnle i :encs which accompany street rencontres, < id that it also docs away with brute force, ( ad places the strong and the weak upon the 1 tme level. Wherein consists the difference t etwoen a street fight and a duel, save in j ivor of the foruiar, we are unable to dis- \ )vcr. If it bo a worse spectaclo to witness \ 10 man assault another upori the sidewalk t ad pommel bis body on account* of a real or incied Wroug until the police or the by- c anders interfere'than for the same men to r ipair to some notorious place of ' meeting," | id?in the presence of a hundred gaping t >ectntors. shoot at each other until one or a )th fall wounded or dead, then this defense ? ay amount to something. The other plea [ equally as absurd: It does not place all t en upon the same level; but, on the con- t ary, places the novice entirely at the mercy 0 the expert in murder. With regard to the r arago which the duelist is supposed to re- c lire, it has often been remarked that in a me of the most.desperate meetings one or 0 >th of the combatants were cowards, and t ? venturo to assert that fear-amoral a ward ice?dread of the worhfs opinion? a -has caused more duels than desire to avenge s juries or heal wounded honor. The his- a ry of dueling, for instance, shows us t! at nfne out often invitations to tho field* ii ivo been sent for causes. the most trivial, u d that bm Imre of teir.enilamd i? es a hasty word, a contemptuous gesture, ^ , as has been frequently tho'case, received f eir death wound from some one who had d it upon them a rdhl or iti^gincd affront, c le folly of this modern substitute for the ti cient ordeal of battle is abundantly testified by the fact that the injure?! party is as of- 0 n the sufferer as the injurcr. It is a prac- ti :e which can settle no pointxif honor, for Sl e parties remain in the sume position af- a r as they did bolcrre the combat. Take tl o Richmond affair?it is a typical duel of f e age. McCarty publishes, anonymously. " pDor and pointless epigram, which was sup- p ?ed to refer to a reigning belle. The mat- <' r is discussed at a dub room, and Mordecai, ' ithout knowing the'author, impulsively as- v rts that if the piece was intended to bring, s ie lady into ridicule its writer was not a u mtleman. The author discloses his indentity c id u quarrel ensues, which is finally lamely v ranged. A few days after the parties c eet again, and a contemptuous accent?a s rawling, sneering intonation brings about r collision and then a duol, in which the ? rgressor was only slightly wounded, while i ie aggrcived party is slaitf. Because Mc- < arty wrote bad verses and drawled his r loecb insultingly, one man is killed and an- ? Jier is to risk the gallows in a trial for mur- t er! Was there any logic in this ? Did the ? ijured party reoeive satisfaction along with ( ball in his stomach '( W e think not. Is ie casus belli?tho wretched doggerel? ?* orth two human lives and tho shame and ' Aguish of perhaps a dozeu hitherto happy unities ? < There can bo no dcfeusc of this foolish < nd wicked custom, and tho sooner a 1 ealthy public sentiment combines with the ' iw to exterminate it root and branch, the 1 ettcr it will be for society and for the coun: 1 7- ... 1 A Pregnant Paragraph.?The picture resented by the following paragraph from he late Governor Moses of south Carolina, < photographic in its fidelity, as depicting he blessings of carpet-bag rule and Inderal e-const ruction. fLe thus addresses the assembled Leg is-1 aturc?three-fourths of whom are negroes: "You have entered upon the sixth session if the General Assembly since the estabjisliuentof free government in South Carolina.'* Govornor Moses proceeds to enumerate lie fruits which a carpet-bag scalawag free j6vcrnnient has brought to the people: "Yet the face of the emigrant is turned iway from our State, nnd capital, which icts labor in -motion and creates the manufactures which contribute to the comfort md clevntion ol' man, ihrinki backfironi im us if th> sxi/h of pestilence were broken and I he riot? emptied out upon this In out ifvl loud ofimrs. llcnoe nearly tjihkk folrtius uf our ruff territorial area. rfnifainintjjiof few thou thirty-sir thousand square miles. tic follow to dot/." Comment is superfluous. "Oh Lord how lony ?"?Savannah Republican. A yirl declared that it she could clwose her mode of death, she tfould prefer In my mothered?with kisses. i The Meannesses of Respectability. Everybody, it has been remarked, has a pet virtuve or a pet vice, and it may almost more truly be said that everybody has a pet mean new*. The meannesses of4 respectability arc of all kinds and degrees. They vary of course with different people. Some can never scltlc with a cabman without a desperate Btuggle over the odd sixpence, and a rankling sense of injury and ruin if the obdurate Jehu happens to get the better of them; Others are dismayed if they arc unexpectedly caught at church when the offeitory bags arc set round. With, others, again, j the weak point is perhaps stationary, or some i other cheap article for household use ; they can never brine them selves to make a bold investment of a lew shillings' worth at a time, but go on from band to mouth with pretty purchases which may have an econominppcaranco in detail, although they are pretty sure to prove more oxtravagant in the 1 ?J? mi long run than a larger oruer. luan wc sven rutnors thafca raid upou club paper is not absolutely unknown. We wondet bow many people ever thiuk of buying a few new pens. There seems to be a supertitious notion tuiong a large class that pens never wear out; bey must be handed down in families almost as if they were articles of great cost ind rarity. Blottiugpaper, too,, is apt to be herished as an object of extravagant luxury, >vcr wbieh persons of moderate means are >ound to be very careful. People who hink nothing of going to considerable cxlense for a dinner or a trip to the country, vill go on for months painfully economizing vith a few wretched blackened leaves rather han spend sixponce on a fresh supply. The old system of franklinkg letters proluced a characteristic development of meanices. The shifts and contrivances to which >coplc used to resort to procure a frank ; he labor, and sometimes even, as it would ippcar, the expense, to which they put themelves to get at some oue who bad it iu his tower to confer tho coveted favor; the inrigues, entreaties, supplications to which hey stooped, are almost incredible. It is illy fair, of course, to rouiember that the ates of postage were enoruiflusly high as ompared with the rates of the present day, ud also tfiat eightecn-pcnce or a couple f shillings was then a relatively large sum han now. Yet, after making every allownce on this account, it is amazing that perons who were not in pinohed circumstances hould have thought it worth while to hunt frank, valued at perhaps two shillings or hereabouts, with such kccnucss and unblushug mendicancy. It was a fashionable leanness, and every body practised it. It rmftsi generation how'the getting ot rrtfck, or a fruitless pursuit of oue, was ccined quite'important enough to be rcorded, and Row frequently the incident urns up. %' The parallel to this morbid passion in our * * * 1 - ?Af/Inru fnr \vn day is pernaps wic mum* im viUu. .... lie play. M. Tainc has remarked with omo astonishment in his recent letters that musements nf this kind fortn "a small itenr in lie expenses of an English middle-class :imily, and that it is thought a necessary conoiny to go to the theatre only when free asses can be procured, Managers, actors, rania'tic critics, newspaper editors, whose rhose pockets arc supposed to be s tufled nth orders, are iuij?ortuued recklessly and hamclessly, in order that well-to-do people nay be provided gratuitously with what they ould themselves purchase for a few shillings rhenever they chose. During a discussion >f.the subject a year or two since, it Whs tatcd that managers and actors frequently ceeive letters from persons who are entire trangers to them, expressing a desire to witless their performances, and beggipg for orlers. Perhaps the lowest depth of ineanicss to which respectability descends is in (coking medical attendance at the hospitals, hus abusing the charity of the institutions ind defrauding tlie poor, whose places they iccupy. At a recent Poor Law Conference, it was issertcd that cases were kuown in which espcctable householders had disguised themselves as servants iu order to procure gratui;ous advice and medicine ;-aud.evoii without Jisguise, people in comfortable circumstances ? -i* a. lot unfrequcntly avail themselves 01 uiu hospitals rather than cull in a doctur to attend them. This, however, is not merely a meanness, but an act of dishonesty, and it is 1 a pity there is no means of punishing it as it deserves. Reasonable economy is always respectable in small things as in jrrcat, but the meannesses of which we have been speaking are at the best but bastard economies, and serve not uufrequeutly as an excuse for extravagance in other wrys. Wasteful people often have fits of pretty parsimony, and will squander a pound with great equanimity on the strcnth ot tho supposed virtue and self-denial which has heen exercised in some shabby trick for snvingsixpeBcc.? Th> Saturihii/ Jirvtnn. I Snnl< wlm kill. I I OltRIliliK IJKA1II. ku. cd Noah Mutton, both white ineir, in'Marion County, in February Inst, was hanged, yesterday. The two liieu were employed as Hat hands on the I'eeJJee Kivcr, and the testimony was that all hands on board had been freely drinking. Souls, drawing a pistol, under drunken excitement, discharged it towards a house on the river bank. Sutton remonstrated with him against his action, being less reckless or more sober than his companion, who, provoked-at the interference, tired upon Suttmi, killing hiir. instantly, j The murderer was promptly arrested and brought to trial at ouec beforefhe court thou in hw-.-iou, convicted and sentenced to be hung on the 1 lith of Uio present month, lie wa-v however, re.-jiiled until the 2'ld. by the (iovernor of the State, when the sentence of the court was duly put into execution. In appearing upon the fallows he presented a thin and worn look, with indications that life could not be long spared him even if the gallows was cheat of its prey own statement of the affair was that ho was drunk and could not remember committing the act. On ihe scaffold he expressed pcnitenco, repentance and the.hope of eternal salvation. At fifteen minutes past 1 o'clock, the drop fell, and then ensued a harrowing and distressing scene. Ilis neck was not broken by the fail, and ho died from a slow and painful strangulation or appoplexy. Ilis breathing was loud and hoarse, like a person suorihg, and his body, in excess of torture, was swayed and SV/ung frightfully to and for through a space of several feet. It was dreadful to witness. His more violent struggles conti^Hjeij for fully six minutes, and there were evidences of life for eleven minutes. There was a large. concourse present, probably 1,500 people, all told. [ WUilfSiirjton Journalt 24th nit. m ^mTTD VvADA TKa rlnO. I JL 11 K l1 UXUUA uir in*, iir-uttv. mo uv.r [ tiny of the negro in tho United States is written. His race grows in idleness and Unproductiveness each year as the old plantation negroes, industrious by habit, arc removed by death. It is notorious that the freeduaan's children do not equal their parent's work. It- is notorious that they are not prolific. The percentage of mulattoes increases continually, and mulattoes, as a sort of hybrid, are at once unfecund and of . weak and unhealthy const itutions, particularly subject to strumous affections and to diseases of tho Jungs. Pneumonia is- a very frequent and fatal disease among them. Meantime, wbilo so large a percentage of the negroes go to the cities and towns, there is a secular movement of the t^hole race, slow but sure, toward tho more tropical parts of ourcountry. This movement is not developed in the figures in the ninth census, because there has not been time yet for the disturbing influences of the war to subside. Thus no one camdoubt for a moment that it is due to abnormal circumstances that- the negro population of Kansas should have increased 2,623.55 per cent., in the last ten . years; that of Iowa 439.01 per oent. It is : aJ& palpably abnormal for Florida to have gaihed 46.29 per cent., Tennessee 13.89 per i cent., and Texas 38 57 per cent Nevertheless, the census reveals to us the beginning of the drift showing also which way it has set. The average gain of the country has < been 9.21 per cent. Hut Delaware has only ' gained 5.40 percent., Maryland only 2.49 1 per cent.; Kentucky has lost 5.91 per cent., 1 Missouri has lost 0.3(1 per cent., w*^rhavc passed aWiiy^beibro the habitat of our p negroes?barring a few unhappy barbers < and whit^-washers and washer-women still. ' about our cities, and possibly a Radical mem- j her or two of Congress?will be bounded ? by the same isothermal lines that bound the habitat of the alligator. In the swamps and ' bayous of the regions bordering on the Gulf, < wherever there is dry sand enough for a } sweet potato patch and water enough to ' float a dug out, the lost remnants of the ' race, which cost tlis nation 850,000 lives, 1 $4,000,000,000 of treasure and flic best 1 hulf of our Constitution, will still flourish } and run wild for centuries. I yeio York World. * 1 \ The Last Horn-Books. t Nowadays, when everything small and J great, from a pianoforte down to a dust-p".u, ( must havo won a medal, or must at the t very least have ben approved at some c Kxhibition or other,we wonder that no in- ( ventivc genius has j yet started a compe f titk>n in school book; the prizes to bo awarded, after the mannc of donkey-races, to the ^ competitors who stad lowest on the list? t those who have manged to cram mo.^t blun- ,, ders into the smaljles compass. * * . * * * * * T A great authoify on education onco J wrote, what ever wise man has often o thought, that "Leaiing to read is the most difficult of all buian attainments." Ana yet this difficulty must be overcome when the mind is .you^ and tender, and more inclined to shirk ay task that iH hard to s learn than to graple with it. Indeed it ^ seems to be the yong shoots only that have v life and elasticit enough to make so o tremendous an off t. Not jnany men who t try to learn to rea after they arc full grown t ever make imch f it, the Ettrick Shephord a and a few otfor notable examples only ex- n ceptcd. But though a child's mind may (j escape beingcrehed into utter imbecility t by this first lariing to read, it runs great li risk of beiajgrbvously warped and injured r by an injud'iois teacher or a stupid system. I Surely, the, thi great aim of all elementary v education ji\ht to ho to make this terrible fi first step as ami as attractive as may n be. It stand cn record of that terribly ( superior wonn, Snsuirnah Wesley, tliat as n soon as each children reached tho mature a age of Sycarsiomado it taste the wormwood t draught of jil in all its bitterness. She h herself held e cup to its lips on the day a that its sixthenr began. The education of h %. ? . ?, t the wretehcdttJc victim was ocgun by re- u miring it toaster ilic first verses of the 1? First Book o Moses. through which it was i: nfterwards ivon day by day. Had tliosc n children bee any other than tho Wesley's such .an or?l must either have reduced them to hoiiss imbecility, or made them hate not onljhc Book of Genesis, but all oth li or things beng the name of'a book, for tho I i whole term choir natural life. But such n strong-iiiinJ< parents' arc now few and far li between, ancny littlo Primer that aspires o i to popiilarityust present itself under some 1 such scduct-ivctitlo as the "Royal Road to Reading," or "Reading without Tears," and must moreover hang out many baits in the way of pictures and gilt covers designed to lure little scholars unawares into the hard i path that leads to wisdom. Every one, from Plato to Mrs. Malaprop, has had .his or her say about' that much worried subject, education. Nowadays it almost seems as if every one hadlakeb into i his head, or rather his fingers, to write about it too, so constant is the showor of , little volumes under the guise of school books which the press rain9 down upon us. Tint nmnrior them *nll it is ftmAzine> how fnw "n -"v? ?? ?o can hit a rational plan of teaching reading. They all seem to be in league together to | make the first sight of the Tree of Know- < ledge unpleasant to the eyes, and the first | taste of its fruit as bitter to tire taste as may be. Their writers clearly cannot grasp the idea that the threefold aim of all primary 1 education ought to be, first, to snow the ' learner how to learn ; secondly, to make him 1 so relish what he has learnt that be may long for more; thirdly, to mark every day by teaching something that is new, but nothing but what is true. No knowledge ( gained in later years ever sticks so fast in the memory as the seed first sown there. The writers of Primers then have it all their 1 own way. Tluj field lies fallow. There are 1 no-stumps of error as yet to be rooted out. ' They may sow in it what they will. But if tlwy will sow tares, from whence can it' ( bear good seed ? Alas! that they should j chiefly find delight in sowing tares. Our iVeto Code Progressive Readers and Royal j Readers. are no whit better than their t fellows. They follow the lead of those who have gone astray before them, and, if we had our way, would with them be-forth- 1 with born away into obscurity among "our \ failures," their sins being on the very i first page. In No. 1. of each series we find c the same stumbling-block set in the way of the young beginner. Both start off with . that array of signs commonly called the 1 alphabet, bearing names that- have no con- * nezion whatever with their sounds when ? joined together into words. Now to learn 8 the alphabet may be all very right and a proper for pupils who aspire only to reaching the standard of learniug which Sir j Anthony Absolute deemed desirable in v woman?to wit, that she should know her ^ letters well enough to mark his liuen, but on no account so as to be able to combine ^ thcui into words. For any one who looks t to getting bayond this it is merely clogging the memory with a quantity of useless stuff. But we aro in advance of this, for do we c not contrive to make a woe attendant on a jTery single*.letter of the alphabet? Can p jiiv i'<ii"?iiAn sense, it must feel that such a statement is untrue, though it may not have the courage to say so. CAT must remain jj \re-a-tcc till the end of time, and it would bo just as rational to affirm that it spells jwss, S >r Jim, or dog, as to insist that it^pelis cat. , The phonetic system of teaching reading s of course thq only rational ono. Instead >f overstraining and overloading the memory f( vith arbitrary decrees that such letters spell g such and such words, it brings the reason- g ng powers into play from the very first. 8( Uy it the child learns the true sounds of the B; ,'owcls, and then the force of the consonant# vhen in combination with the vowels. It inds out that some of the oonsonants are C lentals, some gutturals, and so on. At tl ast it begins to put together these sounds, b vhich it now knows by sight, and fiqds that k hey make some word already familiar to h tscar. Thus each renewed efforts is reward- d td by the delight of a discovery. If the * lay ever comes when the world shall awake b o consciousness of the fact that nothing 84 lught to be taught but what is absolutely rue, the first step towards carryiug out the ^ eform that must follow will be to sweep n emorsclessly from our nurseries all the . loies of letters and picture alphabets. A r 1> ?:?i i A- 11 iic aituvi uuu xj tuu uuiuuur win nave to \ 'move oil" with their fellowa; the children S rill soon find out that A and B, as they ?' ironouuee them, have justas little natural r? onnexion with either of these worthless as ne and two have "buckle my shoe." Saturday Review. c< A Curious Story.?The Fate of States C cem to hang upon a very slender thread in tl Washington?in confirmation wheroof a e: ery curious story, related by a correspondent f the New York World, in connection with bi he mission of General Dick Taylor last Win- ti er. is beiner frcclv circulated, and from the is uthority on which it rests is received with cc nuch credence. It will be remembered that it icneral Taylor had several interviews with he President on Louisana matters, and that tl ic expressed himself as encouraged by the o( esult* The statement now made is that d< iencral Taylor's account of the situation w ras, by the President's request, repeated be- ti ore the Cabinet; that it produced such an fr uipression that it was determined that the ti iovernmcnt hud no alternative but to reeog- cc ir.c McKncry; that the President prepared tt message to Congress announcing this fact; sr hat Senator Morton hearing of it, immediate- pi j went to the White Houso and protested ti gainst any such action, and as the result of is persuasion the President changed his pi iiessage and determined to adhere to Keh t> >g. J lie evidence in lavor ol tins Btatoment lo j such that it would seem as if some official tl otice must be tal^on of it. Ci Chronack and Scntinal. ol 01 A testimonial of tho value of $29,000 tl as been presented in London to tho liev. ill )r. 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Because it follows you only in sunshine. We hear a great deal about labor reform, but there seems to be a greater need of reforming some of those fellows who don't labor. An Iowa Justice of the Peace refused to fine a man for kissing a girl against her will, an the graund that Hannah could have bitten him. but did not. One of Josh Billings' maxima is, "Rise sarly, work hard and late, and give nothing iway, and if you don't getrieh-and go to the trnn mew ana mu fnv ^amnona iuTil) JrUiA m**j puv uiv *VI uuuioggo. Many a troth is like a wolf which we hold jy the ears, afraid to let it escape, and hardy able to retaiu it; yet if promulgated, it' night prove Injurious. "Men are what women make Them," is he singular tile of a new book. It may >6 true, but we have seen some dreadfully # )oor specimens of the manufactured -article, vhich fact reflects badly either upon* the naterial or the maker. One watch set right will do to try many >y; but, on the other hand, obe that goes rroiig may be the means of misleading a whole mighborhood. And the same may be said >f an example. A saloon-keeper having started business n a building where trunks had been manuacturod, asked a friend what he had better lo with the old sign, "Trunk Factory." "O," aid the friend, "just change the T to D, ,nd it wiH suit you exactly." It is said that an Indiana peacher declared n a recent sermon that "no woman who rears falso hair is a fit person to sit In the louse of the Lord.". But as all the women n his congregation wore jute instead of alse hair, they thought he was going fer he women of the otner church. Not long ago, in the court of appeals, a ertain lawyer, of Celtic extraction, while rguing frith earnestness his case, stated a . point and then preceded: " And if it plate the , in ii r i *We. I hsua annthir L- . . PQint that is equally conclusive. A section of plastering about the sice oft ied-qailt, fell on the beads of a group of Tennessee Senators who ooonpicA seats toother in a Nashville theatre (he other night, 'he frightened legislators thonght an invesigation was at hand. ' * A bachelor says that ''all" he should ask )r in a wife would be a good temper, health, ood understanding, agreeable physiognomy, gure, good connection, domestic habits, r$Durces of amassment, good*Spirits, Conneritional talents, elegant manners?money 1 The occupants of a drinking saloon in !ape Girardeau, Mo, were startled lately by ie entrance of the vrifo of one of them, earing ar'covered dish. Placing it on the ible, with the remark that she supposed he ad not time to come borne to dinner, she eparted.' He removed the lid, and fonnd slip of paper, on which was written; "I opo von will enjoy your dinner; it is the ime kind yonr family has at home." "Mr. Speaker," exclaimed a member of ie Arkansas Legislature, "my colleage taunts ie with a desire for fame. I scorn the nputation, sir. Fame, sir 1 What is fame ? t-is a shared pig with a greased tail, which ips throuh the hands of thousands, and ad then is accidentally caught by'some fel w that happens to hold on to it. I let this reascd-tail quadruped go by me without an . fort to clntch it, sir. ' Why Keroswk Lamps Explode.?A ^respondent at Port Penn. DeL, in NeV astle Hundred, on Monday night, sends lis n tt A* f ? - le iouowing suggestions in.regard to tne tplosion of coal oil lamps. He says: When lamps are filled they cannot explode; at when partially filled, if not screwed ght, the space inside the lamp over the oil filled with what is called "fire damp" in >al mines, vis: air and vapor ofooal oil or s gas. It is very remarkable that accidents with lebcst coal oil do not, more frequently >cur, especially when the flame is blown * )wn the chimney in extinguishing a lamp hich has been burning all night?and oar cularly if during the evening it burned eely and created a vacuum or space above to oil, which was heated and suosequontly >olcd during the night when the lamp was irned down and loft to burn with a very nail flame. It is manifest that the higher riccd oil ia more apt to explode tinder icmj uui uuiaiucca. The barner should be screwed down irfectly tight, and the wick should fill the ibe; moreover, be trimmed nvry day, and wered before the lamp is blown out. An* iracite coal stovo will explode, or any oth fuel, upon throwing saiui or dust on top 1 *1 ' a fire when frtriy burning, so that the gas ' product of combustion bo fercod into te ash-pit. Every one is familiar with the lustration in whnt are called "air tight uvea," nnd no anxiety is necessary in using iosc or coal oil lamps, if we reoognixe the x lusc of accident, and do not depend on a lse socuity in the use of what are vulgarly tiled non-explosive oils.